Word Definition

Convict

  1. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  2. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
  3. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  4. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
  5. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
  6. To defeat; to doom to destruction.
  7. Proved or found guilty; convicted.